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The Library of Congress has an internet allergy
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-07-20 at 18.44.06.png932x699 1.17 MB For n+1, Kyle Chayka writes about the Library of Congress and its apparent allergy to new technology. Chayka traces LOC's...
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The battle to save San Francisco's queer spaces
@e_flux wrote: Writing for Vice, Matthew Terrell reports on the battle to save the Stud, a legendary queer bar in San Francisco that recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. The celebration was...
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Hate poetry? You're not alone
@e_flux wrote: In the summer issue of Bookforum, lauded poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke reviews The Hatred of Poetry by fellow lauded poet Ben Lerner. The book is a compact and wry essay on why people...
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Rebecca Solnit on hope in dark times
@karenarchey wrote: For the Guardian, Rebecca Solnit writes about hope in dark times. Solnit originally published a book on the matter in the early naughts, and will amend it for our increasingly dark...
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Spiritualism as supernatural entertainment, then and now
@e_flux wrote: Writing for Public Books, James P. Stanley, a media scholar at Harvard, reviews a trio of new texts that in different ways try to uncover the sociocultural roots of Victorian...
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The "provocation and pleasure" of Roland Barthes' film theory
@e_flux wrote: As Michael Blum writes at the Bookforum website, Roland Barthes had an outsized influence on film criticism of the 1970s and '80s, even though he himself wrote little about film. Blum...
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Larry Gagosian owes New York state $4.28 million in back taxes
@karenarchey wrote: Randy Kennedy reports for the New York Times that Larry Gagosian will pay $4.28 million USD in back taxes to the state of New York. It sounds like Gagosian has some sort of dummy...
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An open letter on identity politics, to and from the left
@karenarchey wrote: A collective of authors wrote an open letter to the left focusing on identity politics, specifically calling for an intersectionality that includes transwomen and transmen as well...
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What ever became of Susan Sontag's "New Sensibility"?
@e_flux wrote: Fifty years ago Susan Sontag published the influential essay “One Culture and the New Sensibility” in her collection Against Interpretation. Taken as a whole, the latter book was a...
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Althusser on radical philosophy and political struggle
@e_flux wrote: The excellent radical web magazine Viewpoint recently unveiled its latest issue, entitled "A 'Struggle Without End': Althusser’s Interventions." In the introduction to the issue,...
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How are the rich hurting the museums they fund?
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-07-25 at 13.55.51.png934x583 823 KB For the New York Times, Ben Davis writes about the decrease in public funding and subsequent increase in private funding among...
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The Strand has a quiz to measure potential employees' book smarts
@karenarchey wrote: A cute, very "New York" read amid the world's more harrowing news: The Strand has been giving its job applicants a test to measure their literary knowledge since at least 1978. The...
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Umberto Eco on ur-fascism
@karenarchey wrote: Back in 1995, Umberto Eco wrote about his experience as a child growing up in fascist Italy. His words are republished by the New York Review of Books among these dark days,...
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Austria: A case study in outmaneuvering the far right
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the blog of the NY Review of Books, Jan-Werner Müller, a fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, writes about the peculiar political situation in Austria, which...
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What Fanon said: An interview with Lewis R. Gordon
@e_flux wrote: Lewis R. Gordon has been a distinguished professor of philosophy at such institutions at the University of London, the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès in France, and Rhodes University...
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The socialist singularity of Cuban novelist Agustín de Rojas
@e_flux wrote: Originally published in 1990, and finally translated into English this year thanks to Restless Books, The Year 200 by Cuban novelist Agustín de Rojas portrays a tech-enabled communist...
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Movie theaters and the end of mass consumption
@e_flux wrote: In a stellar essay for the New Inquiry, Willie Osterweil examines how changes in US movie theater attendance over the past several years reflect the precipitous decline of mass...
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Hilton Als on Agnes Martin
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Review of Books, Hilton Als writes about two new book on Agnes Martin, the biography "Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art" by Nancy Princenthal and a catalog edited by...
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The tyranny of 'minimalism'
@karenarchey wrote: Kyle Chayka writes about minimalism (of the anti-consumerist, rather than artistic variety) for the New York Times, noting that "minimalist philosophy" has gotten annoying as of...
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"The Superhero Photographs of the Black Lives Matter Movement"
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the New York Times Magazine, novelist and photographer Teju Cole examines a number of iconic images from the Black Lives Matter movement in the US, including the above image...
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